Etymologies

Examples

The black-clad, katana-wielding ninjas of lore were borne of civil wars and shady dealings, employed by feudal warlords to spy on, sabotage, and kill their enemies; in short, ninjas were the bad-asses of ancient Japan.

It's quite possible after that the ninjas were the ones who were transformed into rum-vamps, but they're so adept at epic stealth that their verse appears to be missing from the song which is a cycle, as the last verse links to the first.